Paulina derived from the Roman family name Paulinus, that originated from the family name Paulus. The name means ‘small’ or ‘humble’ in Latin.
Paulina is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Paulina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Paulina ranks 775. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Paulina. In the entire USA, approximately 15,315 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Paulina. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Paulina derived from the Roman family name Paulinus, that originated from the family name Paulus. The name means ‘small’ or ‘humble’ in Latin.
The name Paulina is known in... many languages today, especially in Spanish and Portuguese.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Paulina annualy. This means that there have been girls named Paulina who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Paulina have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2002 it holds its present record at #342 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Paulina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Paulina has never been ranked higher than #342. In 2022, she rivaled the 720 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 355 girls named Paulina were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Paulina were born, there have been 428 newborns who were given this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With seven letters, the name Paulina has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Paulina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Paulina, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Unicorn
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Paulina
Paulina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
U
L
I
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
U
L
I
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Paulina sounds like this:
